Where does “bakemeat” come from?

bakemeat (English) comes from Middle English bake mete, from Middle English baken, from Old English bacan, from Proto-West Germanic bakan, from Proto-Germanic bakaną, from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₃g- — to bake, to roast, to fry.

bakemeat (English): Any baked product

Definitions

  1. Any baked product

Ancestry of “bakemeat”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishbake meteAny kind of cooked food which has a pastry...
2Middle EnglishbakenTo bake; to cook in an oven; usually used of...
3Old Englishbacanto bake
4Proto-West Germanicbakanto bake
5Proto-Germanicbakanąto bake
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰeh₃g-to bake, to roast, to fry
Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₃g- →Every word from Proto-Germanic bakaną →Every word from Proto-West Germanic bakan →
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